makifyegin/c-sharp-apify-actor-example

Example Apify actor in C#

Minimal example for developing Apify actor in C# programming language. Here is the actor's page on the Apify store. The code is open source.

The example:

• Reads user provided URL from input
• Does HTTP request to get HTML from this URL
• Saves HTML into OUTPUT record in Key Value Store

This actor works both on Apify platform and locally.

Local usage

For local usage, you need to:

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dotnet
3. Create local storage with apify init or manually create folder path apify_storage/key_value_stores/default/
4. Add INPUT.json file input inside this path that looks like this:

{
    "url": "https://apify.com"
}

5. Build and run the solution with dotnet run
6. You can find OUTPUT.html next to INPUT.json